Palm Springs, CA – March 13, 2013 – Proud Television announced the premiere date for its original series premiering this fall: GAYME SHOW, an original 30-minute game show hosted by PNN Radio’s air-personality Allen Edwards, will premiere live this fall 2013. This new show represents PROUD TV’s broader programming strategy of game-based series that reflect the core attributes of the LGBT community. GAYME SHOW is the first of PROUD TV’s “Campy Entertainment” category – contemporary on-location based game show that...
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“Don’t mess with me. I did jail time and will cut you bitch” She wasn’t reading from a script — she had her lines rehearsed and memorized. Martha Stewart testified today that she had organized a list of “talking points” in her head when she phoned Macy’s boss Terry Lundgren in December 2011 to break the news that she had cut a secret deal with rival JCPenney. Last week the dapper CEO of Macy’s, which is suing to block a licensing deal that would put Martha Stewart home products in Penney’s in May, testified...
80% of computer time at work is wasted. A new study from Kansas State University suggests that we spend even more time than previously thought aimlessly browsing the Internet during our office hours. “Cyberloafing” — wasting time at work online — takes up as much as 80 percent of the time people spend online at work, according to the data collected by Joseph Urgin, an assistant professor at Kansas State, and John Pearson, an associate professor at Southern Illinois University. The results were published in the latest...
Jonathan Coulton arranged a cover of “Baby Got Back” that strongly resembles the one used in “Glee” That was a pretty catchy, sing-songy version of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s rap hit “Baby Got Back” in Thursday night’s episode of “Glee.” It was also very familiar to fans of indie singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton. As angry Coulton fans are clamoring on Twitter, Coulton arranged and recorded an eerily similar “Baby Got Back” cover. So similar, in fact, that the “Glee”...
Nepotism is “rampant” at the MTA — but only lesbians get in trouble for it, an under-fire Metro-North executive claims in a new lawsuit. Sherry Herrington, who makes $170,000 a year as assistant vice president of operations, is under investigation at the MTA after helping her domestic partner, gal pal Stuart Moore, get a job inspecting train cars. Following a gushing e-mail from Herrington that made no mention of their relationship, Moore was hired over several other qualified candidates. Her starting pay was nearly $85,000, even...
“Come On, get your sh*t together” Whatever other resolutions we make leading up to the New Year — to call Mom more often, lay off the late-night snacks — getting ourselves organized is likely near the top of the list. And that often means clearing out the clutter that keeps us from functioning efficiently, whether we’re at work or at home. Many employees — whether they go to actual offices or do their jobs from home — find the last week of the calendar year is ideal for sorting through e-mails,...
It’s the time of year for dashing through the snow to the crowded post office, with arms full of holiday gifts for family and friends. Not to break the atmosphere of holiday cheer, but this Christmas could be the last for the U.S. Postal Service. It is losing $25 million dollars a day and staring down insolvency — unless Congress steps in to pass a reform package that reduces its costs. With just a few days left in the congressional calendar, there is still some small hope for a Christmas miracle — maybe the Postal Service...
“What is that smell?? Billy, did you fart?” TOUCH Some day soon, you’ll be able to order a wedding dress on your tablet and feel the fabric and the veil just by touching the screen. When you feel an object, your brain registers the series of vibrations on your skin as being smooth, rough, sharp, etc. Computer sensors are becoming sophisticated enough to do that too. Within the next five years, vibrators within smartphones will be precise enough that they could be designed to mimic the vibrations experienced when your...
Customers are buying as many as they can. “We have sold out of just about everything,” said Mike Siemienas, spokesman for Supervalu, the grocery store chain that bought the last batch of 20,000 Twinkies from a Hostess factory in Georgia. Siemienas said that the shipment went on sale at Supervalu’s 150 Chicago-area Jewel-Osco stores Monday, and that sales peaked on the day that he dubbed “Twinkie Tuesday.” By Wednesday, only a few cakes were left. “I can tell you first hand that our customers are very...